Advertisement

The Importance of Dancing like an Idiot

The Importance of Dancing like an Idiot Dancing is one of the most releasing and necessary of all activities - but we too frequently hold back from the worry that we 'can't dance.' This film usefully reminds us that there's no such thing as not being able to dance, that the whole point is to move about wildly without shame - and that in doing so, we connect with others and with important forgotten bits of ourselves.
Sign up to our new newsletter and get 10% off your first online order of a book, product or class:
For books and more from The School of Life, visit our online shop:
Our website has classes, articles and products to help you lead a more fulfilled life:


FURTHER READING

You can read more on this and other subjects on our blog, here:

“One of the strangest but also most intriguing and redemptive things that humans get up to, in almost any culture one cares to study, is occasionally to gather in large groups, bathe in the rhythmic sounds of drums and flutes, organs and guitars, chants and cries, and move their arms and legs about in complicated and frenzied ways, losing themselves in the bewilderment of a dance. Dancing has a claim to be considered among the most essential and salutary activities we ever partake in. Not for nothing did Nietzsche, a painfully inhibited figure in day to day life, declare ‘I would believe only in a God who could dance’ (a comment that stands beside his equally apodictic pronouncement: ‘Without music, life would be a mistake.’)...”


MORE SCHOOL OF LIFE

Visit us in person at our London HQ:

Watch more films on SELF in our playlist:


You can submit translations and transcripts on all of our videos here:
Find out how more here:


SOCIAL MEDIA

Feel free to follow us at the links below:

Facebook:
Twitter:
Instagram:


CREDITS

Produced in collaboration with:

Gemma Green Hope


Title animation produced in collaboration with

Vale Productions

the school of life,schooloflife,education,relationships,alain de botton,philosophy,talk,self,improvement,big questions,love,wellness,mindfullness,psychology,how,to,hack,how to dance,dancing as therapy,the school of life anxiety,depression,lonliness,PL-SELF,एक इडियट की तरह नृत्य का महत्व,La importancia de bailar como un idiota,像白痴一样跳舞的重要性,dancing like an idiot,simle things,happiness,the secret to happiness,

Post a Comment

0 Comments